Our Bookaholics Book Club is getting together on Wednesday, May 15 at 6:30pm in the Library's Multipurpose Room to chat about Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken. Here's a summary of the book to get you interested: From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century - nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person - Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to speak of, or at least none she is willing to reveal, and her mysterious origin scandalizes and intrigues the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her. But Bertha is plucky, tenacious, and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford's most defining landmark - with Bertha its most notable resident." We have copies of the book in regular print, large print, and on audiobook available for check out at the upstairs desk.
If you enjoyed Bowlaway, try one of Elizabeth McCracken's other books. You can find out more about these books or place a hold on them by clicking on the links below.
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